On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Or, is using 2pi so entrenched that it has become defacto regardless of utility? Kind of like DST?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:16 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I agree with Dan.
it's just things like this cause some geeks to get their tuchas in a tizzy, whenever somebody mentions the name Euler, oohh........but of course Euler is very important But you don't have to write several hundred papers like him to be the only one to making a contribution to math or science. When if you just read the history books, instead of wikipedaphilia or watching youtube fanboys, there are 3 significant events about PI before Euler was even born.... #1, about 4000yrs yrs ago this mathematical constant was discovered - this isn't hard to believe - but it wasn't called PI yet #2 about 380+yrs ago, the term PI was coined in publications, but for a dfferent constant - now this might be hard to believe if you don't read #3, about 310+yrs ago, a mathematician made the calculation of PI to several significant digits - and this might be hard to believe since it was an obscure mathematician Euler had no involvement with PI in regards to it's constant. this is what was taught in schools before the advent of the Interweb Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 columns !!